Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-03-10

| was not yet able to present its report. He
hoped to be able TO do no within The next
/ IL minutes.
A resolution of thanks to the presiding
officer for his ability, courtesy and Impair
tiality was offered by Mr.. Harris and
unanimously adopted.
Bills were passed for public buil,liDgs
at Paterson, N. j., and Jacksonville, Fla.
Mr.. Dawes pleaded business eugage-
ments as reason why he could not
attend the annual examination at Annap-
oils and Mr.. Aldrich was appointed in his
place
At this point of time (really about
noon, but with the hands on the clock
dial lingering mysteriously about the
| quarter before) there was q subsidenoe Of
business and general lull in the Senate
chamber, IL being understood that the
President of the United States was on his
| way to the Capitol. One of his secreta.
ries, Mr.. o. Il. Pruden, appeared at the
| door and announced that the President
had approved and signed several certain
bills. The President himself had about
that time reached his room in the Capitol.
Senators Sherman and Salisbury re-
| ported that the committee TO wait upon
the President of the United States and in
| quirs II he had any further communion
ton to make to Congress had performed
that duty and had been assured by the
President that he had no further conimu-
nication to make.
The presiding officer then annouoced
that the constitutional period of th, XIX
Congress having been completei, the
Senate stood adjourned without day.
The dial of the Senate clock showed
| 11.55, but the actual time was 1904.
Mr. Hale had not been able within the
II minutes to which he was limited to
have prepared and present the conference
report on the general Deficiency Appro-
priation bill, and consequently that bill
has failed to become law for want of
time to engross it.
EA0use of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, March 4.--The House did
very little business beyond the passage OF
private bills. 1t rather noisiIy awaited
the action of the conference committees
on the appropriation bills.
Mr.. Struble (Iowa) called up the veto
message of the President on the Senate
bill for the erection of public buildings
at Sioux City, Iowa. The House refused
yeas 107, nays Tito paos the bill over
the veto, not the constitutional two
thirds in the affirmative.
Mr.. Herbert (Ala.) submitted the con-
ference report on the Naval Appropriation
bill. After some debate, in the course Of
which Mr.. Boutelle (Me.) criticised the
action of the committee on naval affairs
for failure to make any appropriation
for the completion of the Atlanta, Boston
and Chicago, the report was agreed to.
The conference report on the bill regu-
lating the removal of causes from state to
Federal courts, was submitted by Mr..
Oulberson (Tex.) and agreed to.
Mr.. Nelson (Minn.) moved 10 suspend
the rules and pass the bill granting % th,
Olark's Fork & Cook City Railroad Com.
pany right of way through the Grow res.
eryation in Montana. The motion was
agreed to and the bill passed.
AT O'Clock this morning the eff,cts of
q 16-hours session were visible in the APP
pearance of the hall of the House and In
the members of that body. The floor was
strewn with scraps of paper and remnants
of documents and reports. The atmos-
phere in the House was very impure and
oppressive and was well impregnated
with tobacco smoke, Notwithstanding the
repeated appeals of the speaker to MEM
bers requesting them to observe the rule
which prohibits smoking on the floor.
Excepting dozen or so members, whose
zeal in behalf of their favorite me .sures
kept them on the alert to take advantage
of any opportunity to secure recognition,
the gentlemen of the House lspsed into
indifference and stretched on sofas in the
rear of the hall and in the lobbies loung-
ing back on their chairs with feet elevated
on their desks or grouped together in con-
versational mood, they tried TO ward off
the weariness consequent upon their long
yiggills yyiigills -s---------------.--
In the galleries about 90 persons re-
manned throughout the nil ht. but AS most